Kids, a mortgage, saving for retirement, are but a few of the things that can change ones view.
My awakening began with fetology. It continued when I realized how stupid gun control was, after my brother-in-law challenged me to name a gun control law that had reduced gun crime and I couldn't do it.
The big problem resides with the liberals in a state of arrested development. Most of the older ones still have the attitudes of young teenagers. Go figure.
If they are mentally and emotionally healthy. But if you are mentally and/or emotionally stunted, you end up like Cindy Sheehan and Ted Kennedy.
How true, I wish I had. The biggest regret in my life.
I was a flaming liberal until I got my first job.
I began my turn toward the Right in 1995.
I grew my hair long in college, and those who didn't know me presumed that meant that I was a liberal. The truth is, I grew my hair long to get chicks. It was a successful ploy.
I was born a conservative, I was raised a conservative, I went to college as a conservative, and I expect I will die a conservative.
Looks like the kids that grew up on Limbaugh for the past 18 years he's been on the air, are coming of age. Look out! :) bttt
One day you'll wake up and think to your self, much like Larry Niven's character Phssthpok from the Book titled 'Protector' "I've been stupid".....
I guess I consider myself lucky...
I was a conservative from childhood. The first election I was REALLY interested in (at the age of 10) was the 1968 election, and...yes I was for Nixon all the way. Hippies and antiwar protestors pissed me off. (Of course, my dad was a 30 year Navy vet...so I tended to side against anyone who disparaged what he did for a living...)
LOL...I remember thinking as a junior in High School that John Dean should have been hung for his part in bringing down Nixon, and when I hear him speak today...I realize I was actually right!
The futility is a result of rewalking well-worn trails and thinking that nobody has ever been there before. So with such perennial conceits as unilateral disarmament - it isn't new, it's as stupid as it ever was, and its results are likely to be the same now as they always have been in the past - a de-clawed cat let loose in the jungle quickly finds that moral righteousness makes for poor defense and turns its possessor into a snack.
One can outgrow these conceits either by finding out the fruits of someone else's hard-earned experience or learning the hard way oneself. Liberals tend to insist on the latter, and the worst of them refuse to learn at all, explaining away the insufficiencies of their sundry theories by deflecting the blame elsewhere. This sort of liberal resembles a young person who refuses to grow up, and it isn't accidental.
Not neccessarily.
My SIL (on Social Insecurity) and her live-in boyfriend (on disability but he writes new-age Hippy books) have never gotten over it and probably never will.
Last night, she was on the phone raving how she now hates illegal aliens. She blames the GOP of course, with some credibility. But she thought illegals were great until recently when she went to a Peace demonstration in San Franfreako where the La Razas had taken it over and scared them spitless with their threatening racist rhetoric. But her fright didn't really change her views. Anyhow, she especially adores Diane Feinswine and all the great things the fine Legislature in Kalifornia is doing for the people of that suffering colony.
She drives my wife crazy every week on the phone. I mostly ignore her unless she's visiting, because I don't have to listen to her ranting. Face to face, I demolish her silly arguments point by point until she finally is forced to agree with me. Then she goes back home to Kalifornia again and gets her clock reset to maximum insanity.
I don't think there is a cure for her. She reminds my of the Jews tightly holding onto their precious valuables on the way to the showers.
*sigh*
We need to get Matthew Melone on-board here at FreeRepublic.
Don't get me wrong. Boyfriends can value. Eventually one will turn into a son-in-law and become useful.
Girlfriends are good at helping sons grow up and become useful.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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The 2 catalysts that changed me virtually immediately?
Neal Boortz and my first post-college paycheck of significant dollar amount. I looked at the amount that went to various taxes and became enraged!
I've always been a foreign policy and defense conservative, since I was 18 -- and try being that at the University of Michigan. If I wasn't already a fiscal conservative then, I was soon after I graduated.
But social issues.... I've never been particularly conservative; they just weren't part of my political considerations. But as I get older, I've been noticing a stronger move to the left -- even with a now adult step-daughter and a preteen son. I'm not sure how much that has been a change of view -- after all I did sign up here as Celtjew Libertarian -- and how much it has been they're becomming more important to me.
How long does it take? I know a 36 year old who is still a whining liberal. Of course, he doesn't have children and isn't married. Although he does have a liberal girlfriend. He still complains about his parents and acts like a 12 year old.